S.A.P. AUDIO of Italy: VERY RARE OPPORTUNITY!!!S.A.P. = Strumenti Acustici di Precisione....in English, Acoustic Instruments of Precision... Offered for your consideration: a very special pair of our top of the line mono amplifiers. These retailed for $15,000.00. Offered here for only $6,750.00, is the best pair we ever built. NOTE to International buyers; units have voltage switch to allow for operation anywhere in the wold (120 v to 240 v switch) These are hard-wired versions that feature TAMURA output transformers from Japan. The later production run switched to Italian made transformers and circuit boards. The Italian transformers, while quite good, were, in retrospect, NOT on the same performance/sonic level as the TAMURA trannies. This pair has been further tweaked and refined by the co-designers from S.A.P. & KIOM of Napoli (the best of the best in Italia)...absolute best-sounding parts installed. The S.A.P. is a TRIODE connected amp but using pentode tubes (like KT66, KT77, KT88, 6550). In addition, the mono block amps have ZERO "global" feedback and ZERO "local" feedback. Until you have heard them, you won't believe your ears. Feedback is often a sign of poor designing, the best engineers do not need it.With the S.A.P., you get: a) high current output, so it drives almost any speaker (and has amazing bass and control of bass!) b) ZERO feedback of any kind (and is more stable and reliable because of it; feedback in amps affects reliability too in a bad way) c) VERY WIDE bandwidth, due to the Tamura and other transformers that are wide bandwidth design...this means that UNLIKE a SET amp, which often has rolled off highs and weak bass, the S.A.P. has magical midrange + magical bass + magical highs... d) PURE CLASS A operation The pre-production mono amps (and the Integrated, line stage and phono stage in the same series) were all designed to outdo about 10 products they used as references (Kondo, Audio Tekne, Nagra, etc).... Here is a special opportunity to own one of the best sounding amps out there, for a fraction of the cost of new, and of those other brands that cost 3 to 10 times more! These will ship direct from Salerno, Italy, and will include brand new power transformers and be fully tested before shipping. While we do not have any review links for the mono blocks, you can get a good idea of the capabilities by reading a review of the Integrated, here:
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0503/sapanniversary.htm For more info, contact us with any questions. Payment via bank wire transfer highly preferred; otherwise personal check or money order or bank check is fine. Feedback can be seen at AudioGon under user names sapaudio & hawaiiaudio. Thanks for looking, Ciao from S.A.P. Audio & Hawaii Audio (partner of S.A.P.)
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